SFPL Students Present Papers at International Astronautical Congress
SFPL Students Present Papers at International Astronautical Congress
| Event Date: | October 25, 2019 |
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Tom Cunningham presents an interactive poster on automated mission planning. In attendance was SFPL graduate, Dr. Peter Schulte.
Justin Mansell gives an oral presentation on the application of machine learning to automated fault detection and diagnosis.
SFPL students Thomas Cunningham and Justin Mansell along with SFPL director David Spencer attended the 70th International Astronautical Congress in Washington DC this week to present a trio of papers covering the lab's research and involvement in flight projects.
The papers included Cunningham's PhD research in tools for automated mission planning with a Mars orbiter case study, Mansell's PhD research in applying machine learning to detect and diagnose faults onboard spacecraft, and preliminary results from the LightSail 2 solar sail mission for which Dr. Spencer is the project manager. The presentations were all well received and SFPL members took advantage of the opportunity to discuss next-generation ideas for space flight with attendees from all across the globe. More than 6500 people attended the conference, which is among the largest in the field of astronautics.